Re: [PATCH] softirq: let ksoftirqd do its job

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:38:59PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:29:25 +0200
Jesper Dangaard Brouer [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:53:56 +0200
Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 01:02:31PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:  

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   PID  S  %CPU     TIME+  COMMAND
     3  R  50.0  29:02.23  ksoftirqd/0
 10881  R  10.7   1:01.61  udp_sink
 10837  R  10.0   1:05.20  udp_sink
 10852  S  10.0   1:01.78  udp_sink
 10862  R  10.0   1:05.19  udp_sink
 10844  S   9.7   1:01.91  udp_sink

This is strange, why is ksoftirqd/0 getting 50% of the CPU time???    

Do you run your udp_sink thingy in a cpu-cgroup?  

That was also Paolo's feedback (IRC).  I'm not aware of it, but it
might be some distribution (Fedora 22) default thing.

Correction, on the server-under-test, I'm actually running RHEL7.2

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How do I verify/check if I have enabled a cpu-cgroup?

Hannes says I can look in "/proc/self/cgroup"

 $ cat /proc/self/cgroup
 7:net_cls:/
 6:blkio:/
 5:devices:/
 4:perf_event:/
 3:cpu,cpuacct:/
 2:cpuset:/
 1:name=systemd:/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-c1.scope
 
And that "/" indicate I've not enabled cgroups, right?

Mostly so. I think RHEL/Fedora has SCHED_AUTOGROUP enabled, and you can
find that through:

cat /proc/self/autogroup

And disable with the noautogroup boot param, or:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

although this latter will leave the current state intact while avoiding
creation of any further autogroups iirc.